Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A young human (7?) would like to balance and walk along a very high stone wall. Dad asks if she needs help and she thinks about it, then nods decisively. Moments later she's performing this mighty feat, holding Dad's hand as he keeps her steady. (1)

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I'm pleased to share the English-subbed trailer of "We Are Aliens" (Un Monde entre nous), the first animated feature film directed by Kohei Kadowaki (29y old). Produced by Nothing New (Japan) & Miyu (France). Premiere tomorrow at Cannes. + French-subbed trailer >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-05...

Hello I’m a photographer and this is my pinned post of some of my favourite photographs I’ve taken recently

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Well done, Widow’s Bay. Well done.

They make sure to move the pairs in the same box together 🥰 www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Everything Winston knows he learned from Muldoon. Including ”this one trick” that wrecks things for 50 years.

At one point it was following this raccoon around which is a tag-team I haven’t seen before 😂

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

The D&D subclass they tried to ban

La République, Honoré Daumier, 1848

Happy Mother's Day

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

So eighty-odd years ago my grandfather was studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge and, as part of it, had a class where he had to learn how to identify fossils. My grandfather was a) not an observant man and b) from Birmingham. This was not his time to shine. 1/n

The use of “czar” for a government executive really reached an absurd peak the other day when I read someone’s position was the appointed “anti-semitism czar” which well yeah he usually was

demon + kitten

Note the absence of, say, Richard Dawkins showing up to decry this.

That is a jaunty Behemoth. He is having the time of his life

A dedicated and lucrative effort to put every crime on your home page has convinced people living in a very low crime era that they're in Batman's Gotham. Similarly, groups with names like Tax Payers Alliance have convinced a nation 80% of its tax dollars are being spent on transgender refugees.

Lucas ought to have gone full Heinlenn with Luke and Leia. Dune, Dark, Heinlenn, incest is just sci fi

Some of you could use this featurette on the return of Felis silvestris to French forests. Yeah yeah you don't understand French, I'm only at "kind of get the jist, sometimes" listening comprehension myself, just watch the cats.

The Seed Song

regular reminder: keir starmer quite literally told the left, and progressive voters, to leave. he told us he did not want our votes.

Hobson’s Pledge is throwing their weight behind the FSU’s attempt to win #InternetNZ board seats. pastebin.com/tX1rKcJ5 If you’re an existing InternetNZ member ensure: your membership is up to date and if not please register prior to May 10th here: members.internetnz.nz #kikorangi #nzpol

The New Zealand version is Chris Hipkins putting beating TPM ahead of getting into government, apparently

Votes for Women brooch, circa 1909? Possibly made in Britain by Ernestine Mills, as it post-dates the New Zealand suffrage campaign, & similar examples are attributed to Ernestine Mills. Ref GH026183, Te Papa.

While I am a crochet artist, I am also a pointillism artist! Here is Mister Business and Beach Gal. I have prints available of each.

Deep thinking. #grickledoodle #thoughts #creativity #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

did you know that windows natively censors the unicode characters 𓂺, 𓂸, and 𓂹? the only way to get them to display in windows is by combining them with other characters. but, for instance, 🀫𓂸 doesn't work. it HAS to be from the hieroglyph set, like 𓀣. so, for example, this 𓂺𓀣 or 𓀓𓂸

My son and I visited UoA's Bob Doran Museum of Computing for the first time since he was a kid yesterday. We had a great time looking at and discussing the various artefacts of computing's evolution. We also enjoyed some schoolboy humour about old keyboards.

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

Speech is simultaneously the most important thing in a democracy and must be unrestricted while also being so completely harmless and ineffectual that it can cause no harm no matter what is said.

Many such AC/DC songs

From the saluting the flag discourse of around 8 months ago

Incredible chart (from otherwise depressing news story about bad advice being given to new parents) showing how cot deaths fell by 50% in the first year after the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched, and have continued to fall since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"It's starting." Goddamn I thought the series premiere of Widow's Bay was funny. Think Fawlty Towers, only instead of John Cleese it's Matthew Rhys and instead of a hotel it's a cursed Stephen King town with a history of horrific atrocities and The Fog That Stole Men's Souls

FIN ('Merlin', the Museum Cat by Bert Lee)

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"No more eye tests for drivers' licenses" look at this point just start paying people to murder other road users if they do it with a car it would be more honest.

Fiery-throated Hummingbird #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds

Rainful thoughts. #grickledoodle #rain #cat #introspective #dog #spring #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor #sad